Gloria Oyarzabal
Gloria Oyarzabal questions the complex processes of colonisation, decolonisation and African feminism, arriving at the conclusion that gender discourses cannot be universalised. A Graduate in Fine Arts, her diverse work expands across film, photography and teaching.
In 2017 she was selected for the artist residency El Ranchito, South Africa & Nigeria (Matadero) which took place between Madrid and The Arthouse Foundation in Lagos. In 2020 she was also invited to be a resident artist at Gibellina Photoroad (Sicily, Italy).
Since 1996 Gloria has worked as artistic director and head of photography for experimental short films and documentaries. She holds a Master’s in Creation & Development of Photographic Projects from the Blankpaper School of Photography (Madrid, 2014-2015), a Diploma in Conservation & Restoration of Art (1993) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Complutense University of Madrid (1998). She was also a professor at IADE where she taught Analysis of Architectural Forms (2001-2010).
In 2017 she was selected for the artist residency El Ranchito, South Africa & Nigeria (Matadero) which took place between Madrid and The Arthouse Foundation in Lagos. In 2020 she was also invited to be a resident artist at Gibellina Photoroad (Sicily, Italy).
Since 1996 Gloria has worked as artistic director and head of photography for experimental short films and documentaries. She holds a Master’s in Creation & Development of Photographic Projects from the Blankpaper School of Photography (Madrid, 2014-2015), a Diploma in Conservation & Restoration of Art (1993) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Complutense University of Madrid (1998). She was also a professor at IADE where she taught Analysis of Architectural Forms (2001-2010).
2021
2º Prize Best Edited Book in
2020
Ministry of Culture (España)
APERTURE PARIS PHOTO Best Photobook of the year.
APERTURE Foundation Portfolio Prize. Finalist
BBA Gallery Photography Prize (Berlín, Alemania)
“VISIBLES , Arte y Mujer” Contest, La Cabrera (Madrid)
PHOTOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF HUMANITY Juror’s pick
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award. Finalista
2019
IMAGES VEVEY PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARD (Vevey, Suiza)
FOTOFESTIWAL LODZ GRAND PRIX (Polonia)
PHOTOMED 1st Prize
Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
PHOTOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF HUMANITY Women Photographers Grant Finalist
PhotoChronicles Portrait Award
2018
Grants for the production of Plastic Arts of the Community of Madrid
ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM DISCOVERY AWARD (Braga, Portugal)
BMM Award (Miradas de Mujeres Biennial, organized by WAV (Women in the Visual Arts), Madrid, Spain.
Julia Cameron Award. Finalist
2017
LANDSKRONA FOTO DUMMY AWARD
2016
Can Basté Prize Winner (exhibition in Barcelona 2018)
2015
"Carta Blanca". EFTI, Madrid
Finalist Nexofoto X Ibero-American Photography Competition
Finalist FOTOPRESS LA CAIXA
2014
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award. FINALIST
2013
Honourable Mention 38th PWP Professional Women Photographers
2nd Prize 2013 International Women's Erotic Art Competition
2º Prize Best Edited Book in
2020
Ministry of Culture (España)
APERTURE PARIS PHOTO Best Photobook of the year.
APERTURE Foundation Portfolio Prize. Finalist
BBA Gallery Photography Prize (Berlín, Alemania)
“VISIBLES , Arte y Mujer” Contest, La Cabrera (Madrid)
PHOTOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF HUMANITY Juror’s pick
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award. Finalista
2019
IMAGES VEVEY PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARD (Vevey, Suiza)
FOTOFESTIWAL LODZ GRAND PRIX (Polonia)
PHOTOMED 1st Prize
Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
PHOTOGRAPHIC MUSEUM OF HUMANITY Women Photographers Grant Finalist
PhotoChronicles Portrait Award
2018
Grants for the production of Plastic Arts of the Community of Madrid
ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM DISCOVERY AWARD (Braga, Portugal)
BMM Award (Miradas de Mujeres Biennial, organized by WAV (Women in the Visual Arts), Madrid, Spain.
Julia Cameron Award. Finalist
2017
LANDSKRONA FOTO DUMMY AWARD
2016
Can Basté Prize Winner (exhibition in Barcelona 2018)
2015
"Carta Blanca". EFTI, Madrid
Finalist Nexofoto X Ibero-American Photography Competition
Finalist FOTOPRESS LA CAIXA
2014
Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award. FINALIST
2013
Honourable Mention 38th PWP Professional Women Photographers
2nd Prize 2013 International Women's Erotic Art Competition
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Rocío Santacruz Gallery (Barcelona)
2020
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" VISIBLES award, La Cabrera (Madrid)
2019
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Espaço MIRA (Porto, Portugal)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ARTPHOTOBCN (Centre Civic Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain)
2018
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE". Intermediae Mirador Usera (Madrid, Spain)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" CAN BASTÉ (Barcelona, Spain)
2017
"ELMINA STRATEGY". PHE DO AWARD.
EXHIBITION HALL EL AGUILA (MADRID)
2016
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ". EFTI (MADRID)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Festival INTRANCE (Galatina, Italy)
2020
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" SIPF Singapore International Photography Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FIFBH- Festival Internacional de Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
"EMILIA" Lagos Photo Home Museum
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PhotoMarseille: Prix Maison Blanche (France)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Helsinki Photo Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Copenhagen Photo Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PhotoAlicante
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Art+Feminism, Spazju Kreattiv (Malta)
2019
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" GESTE PARIS "La verité dèguisèe" (Paris, France)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PHOTOVOGUE FESTIVAL (Milan, Italy) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" GUETXO FOTO (Guetxo, Spain) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FOTONOVIEMBRE (Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain)
HOUSE OF LUCY GALLERY, Lucie Foundation ( Los Angeles, USA)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Les Nuits Photographiques d'Essaouira (Morocco) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FOTOFESTIWAL (Lodz, Poland)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ATHENS FOTO (Athens, Greece)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FORMAT FESTIVAL (Derby, England)
2018
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ORGAN VIDA "Engaged, active,aware-woman's perspectives now" (Zagreb, Croatia)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Kaunas Foto ( Lithuania)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Voies Off ( Arles, France)
"THE PICNOLEPSY OF TSHOMBÉ" Odessa Batumi Photo Days (Ukraine)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" REVELA-T Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
2017
"SUSANA AND THE OLD PEOPLE". RANCHITO NIGERIA SOUTH AFRICA. MATADERO (MADRID)
"STILL THE BARBARIANS" ATHENS PHOTOFESTIVAL. BENAKI MUSEUM (ATHENS, GREECE)
2016
"STILL THE BARBARIANS" URBAN LAYERS:(Upho Festival Malaga (ESP),Photobiennale Thessaloniki(GR),Bitume Photofest Lecce(IT))
"PLEASURE IV" INHABITING INTIMACY.NIGREDO ESPACIO(MADRID)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" LATENT ROMA.
MACRO MUSEUM (ROME)
PHOTOBOOK "THE PICNOLEPSY OF TSHOMBÉ":
-Encontros da Imagem Call for Books (Braga,Portugal).
-Finalist SCAN Photobooks (Tarragona, ESP)
-Finalist. Unseen Dummy Award (Amsterdam)
-Finalist Cosmos PDF Award #9 (Arles, France)
-Athens Photo Festival Dummy Award.
-Finalist Kassel Dummy Award. -Finalist Docfield Barcelona Dummy Award. Honourable Mention.
2009
"FIVE NEEDS". FRAGIL(Madrid)
2015
"THE PICNOLESPIA OF TSHOMBÉ":
-Lagos Photo Festival (Nigeria)
-OpenStudio(Madrid)
-Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal) Finalist
-La New fair (La New Gallery, Madrid)
2014
"Instants Quotidians" TACCbcn (Barcelona). PhotoEspacioOculto (Madrid) Collective exhibition "Streetstyle" Tate Britain
"Now, We" Miradas de Mujer Festival.
"Franqueados" (Madrid)
2013
LAP/Public Art Award (Basilicata, Italy)
Celeste Prize (Florence, Italy)
2010
X University of Murcia Photography Award. Catalogue
2009
Biodiversity Foundation Awards.
XVI Cerveira Biennial (Portugal). Work in catalogue.
2008
"The copy, the false (and the original)" Canal de Isabel II (Madrid).
Selected in www.2008culturas.com (Mº of Culture)
"De Madrid el suelo". Espacio Menos Uno (Madrid)
2007
"Fernando Quiñones" Contest (Cádiz, Spain)
José García Jiménez Foundation Prize for Artistic Creation (Murcia, Spain) Selected.
2006
Young Prize of Plastic Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. Selected. Work in catalogue.
2021
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Rocío Santacruz Gallery (Barcelona)
2020
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" VISIBLES award, La Cabrera (Madrid)
2019
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Espaço MIRA (Porto, Portugal)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ARTPHOTOBCN (Centre Civic Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain)
2018
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE". Intermediae Mirador Usera (Madrid, Spain)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" CAN BASTÉ (Barcelona, Spain)
2017
"ELMINA STRATEGY". PHE DO AWARD.
EXHIBITION HALL EL AGUILA (MADRID)
2016
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ". EFTI (MADRID)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Festival INTRANCE (Galatina, Italy)
2020
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" SIPF Singapore International Photography Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FIFBH- Festival Internacional de Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
"EMILIA" Lagos Photo Home Museum
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PhotoMarseille: Prix Maison Blanche (France)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Helsinki Photo Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Copenhagen Photo Festival
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PhotoAlicante
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Art+Feminism, Spazju Kreattiv (Malta)
2019
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography (Tel Aviv, Israel)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" GESTE PARIS "La verité dèguisèe" (Paris, France)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" PHOTOVOGUE FESTIVAL (Milan, Italy) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" GUETXO FOTO (Guetxo, Spain) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FOTONOVIEMBRE (Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain)
HOUSE OF LUCY GALLERY, Lucie Foundation ( Los Angeles, USA)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Les Nuits Photographiques d'Essaouira (Morocco) screening
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FOTOFESTIWAL (Lodz, Poland)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ATHENS FOTO (Athens, Greece)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" FORMAT FESTIVAL (Derby, England)
2018
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" ORGAN VIDA "Engaged, active,aware-woman's perspectives now" (Zagreb, Croatia)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Kaunas Foto ( Lithuania)
"WOMAN GO NO'GREE" Voies Off ( Arles, France)
"THE PICNOLEPSY OF TSHOMBÉ" Odessa Batumi Photo Days (Ukraine)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" REVELA-T Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
2017
"SUSANA AND THE OLD PEOPLE". RANCHITO NIGERIA SOUTH AFRICA. MATADERO (MADRID)
"STILL THE BARBARIANS" ATHENS PHOTOFESTIVAL. BENAKI MUSEUM (ATHENS, GREECE)
2016
"STILL THE BARBARIANS" URBAN LAYERS:(Upho Festival Malaga (ESP),Photobiennale Thessaloniki(GR),Bitume Photofest Lecce(IT))
"PLEASURE IV" INHABITING INTIMACY.NIGREDO ESPACIO(MADRID)
"LA PICNOLEPSIA DE TSHOMBÉ" LATENT ROMA.
MACRO MUSEUM (ROME)
PHOTOBOOK "THE PICNOLEPSY OF TSHOMBÉ":
-Encontros da Imagem Call for Books (Braga,Portugal).
-Finalist SCAN Photobooks (Tarragona, ESP)
-Finalist. Unseen Dummy Award (Amsterdam)
-Finalist Cosmos PDF Award #9 (Arles, France)
-Athens Photo Festival Dummy Award.
-Finalist Kassel Dummy Award. -Finalist Docfield Barcelona Dummy Award. Honourable Mention.
2009
"FIVE NEEDS". FRAGIL(Madrid)
2015
"THE PICNOLESPIA OF TSHOMBÉ":
-Lagos Photo Festival (Nigeria)
-OpenStudio(Madrid)
-Encontros da Imagem (Braga, Portugal) Finalist
-La New fair (La New Gallery, Madrid)
2014
"Instants Quotidians" TACCbcn (Barcelona). PhotoEspacioOculto (Madrid) Collective exhibition "Streetstyle" Tate Britain
"Now, We" Miradas de Mujer Festival.
"Franqueados" (Madrid)
2013
LAP/Public Art Award (Basilicata, Italy)
Celeste Prize (Florence, Italy)
2010
X University of Murcia Photography Award. Catalogue
2009
Biodiversity Foundation Awards.
XVI Cerveira Biennial (Portugal). Work in catalogue.
2008
"The copy, the false (and the original)" Canal de Isabel II (Madrid).
Selected in www.2008culturas.com (Mº of Culture)
"De Madrid el suelo". Espacio Menos Uno (Madrid)
2007
"Fernando Quiñones" Contest (Cádiz, Spain)
José García Jiménez Foundation Prize for Artistic Creation (Murcia, Spain) Selected.
2006
Young Prize of Plastic Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid. Selected. Work in catalogue.
